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#sharing economy

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E-Tailing

Feb 8, 20183 min read

GRAB and UBER fighting to dominate the ridesharing in South East Asia

Uber’s founders first tested their app among San Franciscans, a pair of Harvard Business School classmates from Malaysia seized upon a similar idea: They wanted to build Uber, but for Asia. In 2012, they launched a ride-sharing service with 40 drivers in…

Living

Feb 1, 20182 min read

First full year of profitability for Airbnb

Airbnb announced it generated earnings of about $100m in 2017 while bookings grew around 150 percent, in a streak of profitability that marks a contrast with heavily lossmaking peers such as Uber and Lyft. The 2017 year marks the first full year of generating…